Sentences with phrase «modern idea in»

[79] Modern ideas in art also began to appear more frequently in commercials and logos, an early example of which, from 1916, is the famous London Underground logo designed by Edward Johnston.

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And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.

But not everyone is in love of the idea of a ritualized switching off, at least not if it's unconnected to deeper reflections about what's driving the seemingly frantic pace of modern life.

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Though mobile and the web have disrupted all media, a large screen in the living room has proven a resilient idea, and is still the modern hearth around which people gather.

Some might scoff at the idea of using emojis and jokes about modern tech to communicate, but these are just small examples of Coach K's ability to communicate in a way that his players understand and appreciate.

But Mackey, who co-authored a bestselling book on the theme in 2013, has become the closest thing to a modern - day spokesman for an idea that, dare we say, has found its time.

The idea of a job guarantee originally comes from a movement in economics known as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), one of whose tenets is that monetary policy more or less does not work.

Whether you love the idea of Earnest's modern features or their in - depth approach to underwriting appeals to you, Earnest can be a great student loan refinancing option.

These 40 small business ideas suit soon - to - be entrepreneurs in a range of industries, and with a variety of interests, but there's a need in the modern market for all of these services.

«It is the ever increasing exchange of ideas that causes the ever - increasing rate of innovation in the modern world.»

Saturday's rallies, organizers said, were attempting to demonstrate a show of force in that debate: Many citizens do not automatically want their nation's economy to expand (it's an almost universally - accepted idea in modern economics that expanded trade will provide net economic expansion to both countries) but instead they care how those benefits are distributed.

However, Father Christmas and his other European variations are modern incarnations of old pagan ideas about spirits who traveled the sky in midwinter, Hutton said.»

It seems to be the tired old shtick where you adapt Shakespeare's Romans or Danes or Scots by dressing them up in modern military uniforms, which tends to convey the idea that the characters are basically fascists.

And so a plausible case might be made, despite the absence in ancient Rome of direct resemblances of modern Western constitutional liberty, for a «Ciceronian» support of the idea, and of the lived sentiment, of values to be faithfully commemorated.

This idea of a periodically expanding and contracting universe, which involves a scale of time and space of vast proportions, has arisen not only in modern cosmology, but also in ancient Indian mythology.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

It's no accident that Occupy [Wall Street] sprang from an idea in Ad Busters, a journal and website dedicated to using modern media for anticonsumerist purposes.

Mr Deighan will have read in these pages «something very close» to the idea that Thomistic epistemology tends to emphasise «immutable essences» and static forms, and that this emphasis has been powerfully challenged by the success of modern science (for example Jaeger's article in our last issue and in our September 2006 issue the editorial and the quotes from Ronald Knox's God and the Atom).

«If the word «random» necessarily entails the idea that some events are «unguided» in the sense of falling «outside the bounds of divine providence,» we should have to condemn as incompatible with Christian faith a great deal of modern physics, chemistry, geology, and astronomy, as well as biology,» he wrote.

These ideas are recommended by their usefulness and authenticity in promoting and explaining the Catholic faith in the modern world.

Alisdair MacIntyre, who is a fairly transparent inspiration for this idea, suggested we retreat from modern institutions into small monastery - like communities in order to rebuild the moral foundation of character — an integrated set of beliefs and morality — that modernity has undermined.

He compares this to the idea of the divine right of kings, which has no place in a modern democracy.

The culture concept is one of the great illuminating ideas of modern science, comparable in importance to the concept of evolution in biology, the concept of electromagnetic and gravitational fields in physics, and the concept of the atom in chemistry.

Modern man can no longer go along with the idea that to have faith, one has to abandon the historical, secular and earthly, that, in effect, he has to surrender his very humanity.

We must resolutely resist any such idea, even though we may find it again today in the formulae of modern theologians: «Historical events express a Word of God to the church,» or: «Christ lives in history.»

Crane Brinton reminds us that among the stock of ideas developed in the modern world is «the idea that ideas are powerless to influence human actions.»

His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

Even though the title «Son of God» is used in the account of the Baptism, presumably the origin of Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea of his acceptance of death is formulated in terms of the heavenly Man who has power and authority upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28) who fulfills what is written of him, who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.

But modern ideas of justice to the individual were not in the background of the Old Testament's thought, and nowhere in the Bible does «atonement» mean what modern theologies, presupposing modern legal systems, have made it mean.

I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).

Although too much is at stake in the critique of the modern world to dismiss as a fad the idea that we are moving into a new epoch, the term is weak also in that it does not provide any positive indication of what is succeeding the modern or what should follow it.

But by calling it a preunderstanding she assimilates it to the idea that it arises in an autonomous modern world and then becomes our special basis for questioning Jesus.

Mascall recognizes that this idea has been banished from modern physics, although it seems to continue to play a role in such sciences as biology and psychology.

Better to understand Chesterton's idea that Jews were not naturally a part of English culture without the inevitably determinative intervening lens of the Nazi holocaust, we might compare it with modern English perceptions of the problem of multiculturalism as it applies particularly to the Moslem community, still widely seen as being impossible to assimilate: thus, there is understood by many decent and tolerant people to be what might be termed a «Moslem problem» (just as many decent and tolerant gentiles in Chesterton's day thought there was a «Jewish problem»).

«One theme that I keep encountering in SR sessions,» he says, «is the idea that there's something called modern discourse, which operates according to rigid rules dictated by secular liberalism.

Jesus expresses no conception of a human ideal, no thought of a development of human capacities, no idea of something valuable in man as such, no conception of the spirit in the modern sense.

Until the modern period, Jewish peoplehood — the notion that the Jews are a distinct group based on both historical and biological criteria — was almost always embedded in the larger tapestry of Jewish ritual, ideas, texts, and history.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Buddhists, for millennia, have rejected some of the ideas that Whitehead found wrong in modern Western thought.

Prothero, you're mostly right in this article but one glaring error you can't get past is the idea that modern science and failed sciences (religions) can be friends.

Whatever roles philosophical and theological ideas played in the debates over heliocentrism, biological evolution, and the Big Bang theory, the scientific issues were eventually settled by more and better data and by considerations that were purely «scientific» in the modern sense.

First, he believes that in the modern era, the Church Fathers» ideas about divine attributes, traditionally dear to Catholics and Protestants alike — such as divine perfection, simplicity, eternity, and immutability — have to be evaluated anew in light of a narrative reading of the Gospel.

They take the idea of a sentence or paragraph, and then try to express that idea in modern language.

There are long passages in the last chapter of Science and the Modern World, for instance, which could easily have served as the source of some of Leopold's ideas, and which suggest that Leopold's notion of community could be derived from Whitehead's theory of organism without much difficulty.

and to say a roman emporer is responsible for the modern Bible shows you have no idea of the history of the Bible... we have a list of almost ALL the NT that was ALREADY accepted widely by the church in 150 AD!

And so the simple idea of secularization theory — that over time modern secularity replaces premodern religious credulity — is negated by an exact reverse in the case of leading scholars in the development of British anthropology.

Among his earlier works are The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions and Can Modern War Be Just?

Whatever was the case then, that hardly holds today: modern conservatives, at least in America, are bursting with ideas.

I enjoy the sentiment and idea of no labels but it seems to be a fantasy to try to live in this modern world minus all the labels and ridicule and hate that comes from it all.